monitors

so, having found someone willing to pay hourly for my lunacy, i have realized that i'll actually be able to get some gear again.

first on my list is a novation knobdaddy. after that, however, i need to get some monitors.

my upstairs set is a battle-weary set of altec lansings with a subwoofer the size of the statue of liberty and a giant orange stain on the left speaker. i'd had a bit of lsd-25, and i spilled orange soda on it. i said, i will remember this stain forever, and i shall. my downstairs, studio set is a pair of mitsubishi speakers from the dump (thanks dad) and a 30-year old power amp that emits a fascinating array of clicks, pop, hummm. i have some headphones that aren't terrible, which is how i've managed to mix things somewhat properly at all. that and just playing my shit on a half-dozen different setups, to give me a marginally vague idea regarding the frequency malarky

ANYWAYS - i'm terrible with this crap. for music not mine, i can't tell it's mp3 north of 256kbits, but i CAN tell my current monitoring setups are steaming turd.

what monitors do you chaps recommend? price range is ideally $cheap, but this is probably one of those things i'll wind up sinking more than i intended to into, and thank myself for doing so later. they should be self-powered/amplifying. i am serious about my music, but i am also not steve fucking albini.

a friend of mine recommended Adam A7 they look nice but expensive

I use Fostex I believe PM 2's but I forget the exact model number. The sound great. Handle bass really well.

I absolutely love my KRK RP5's which I got for around $140, the quality is unmatched for the price. I dunno if your in mass but my town has a dump too, I've collected so many cables and even got a free mic the other week.

Behringer Truth B2031A. You will NOT find a better set of monitors in their price range, or even hundreds of dollars above it.

  Diao said:

Behringer Truth B2031A. You will NOT find a better set of monitors in their price range, or even hundreds of dollars above it.

Word. But be warned if space is limited, these babies are LARGE.

i recently bought a pair of mackie HR624s and i'm really liking them, fucking ace. they're a bit pricy though, and in my current limited space almost stupidly large and loud. i was previously using a pair of passive tannoy PBM MkIIs through a slightly iffy amp and the difference is amazing, all these speakers lying to me all these years! (and d'oh! a million tracks to rework the mixing on to get rid of hilariously dodgy levels). i've had them a month or so now so have listened to enough stuff to properly trust them, recommended! the only downsides i can think of are the cost and the faint hiss when they're switched on but not playing anything but ive never heard active monitors that didn't have that!

[edit] - i was a bit wary of splashing out so much for these but hearing them in my room and the sheer massive reassuring solidness of them makes me think it was totally worth it. if i ever give any music advice in future it will be 'buy the best monitors you can afford!' i just wish i'd had the money sooner and had these for using during my 'hobo years' of student & unemployed music making.

Bluesky Media Desk over here... the 2.1 system is nice cuz the sub is phat and the cross fade from the subs to the satellites is smooth...

However using my AKG 701 headphones, I notice that the monitors defiantly do not pick up everything. Regardless its good for me considering the price and the size.

I have always thought it is a bad idea to mix with just headphones or just monitors.